Episodes
Why Your SDLC Is Broken with Andre Kaminski
Most organizations think they're doing AI. They've bought the licenses, rolled out the tools, and told the team to start using Copilot. But adding AI on top of a 40-year-old process isn't transformation. It's decoration. Andre Kaminski, Director of Advanced Technology Solutions at WorkSafeBC and aut...
Intent Is Not Enough
Agreeing on an idea doesn't mean you both understood the same thing. Dave Sharrock and Peter Maddison dig into why shared context breaks down in practice, and how AI makes that problem harder to ignore. This week's takeaways: Intent is always imperfect. Define how you'll validate it, not just what i...
Why AI and PowerPoints Are Quietly Killing Your Product Intent
It doesn't happen all at once. A great idea comes out of a strategy session. Someone turns it into a PowerPoint. Another person summarizes that PowerPoint with AI. By the time it reaches the team building it, the sharp edges are gone and nobody quite remembers what made the idea worth pursuing in th...
Do You Actually Have a Capacity Problem?
Most organizations think they have a capacity problem. They usually don't. What they have is a work-in-progress problem. And those two things call for very different solutions. In this episode, Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock dig into one of the most persistent headaches in organizational managemen...
Context Engineering and the Roles AI Is Rewriting
AI is changing how products get built. That part isn't news. But it's also changing who needs to do what - and that's a conversation most organizations haven't had yet. In this episode, Peter and Dave dig into one of the more interesting tensions emerging in 2026: as coding agents take on more of th...
AI Won't Fix a Structural Problem with AJ Bubb
A lot of organizations are betting that AI will make their teams faster. Some of them are right. Most are solving the wrong problem. AJ Bubb, founder of MxP Studio and host of Facing Disruption, joins Peter and Dave to talk about what actually happens when AI lands in a development team without fixi...
Project vs. Product: Finding the Operating Model That Actually Fits
Most organizations are running some version of a project operating model or a product operating model - or, more honestly, an uncomfortable mix of both. In this episode, Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock get into what actually separates these two approaches, where the tensions show up, and why copyin...
Who Decides? Sorting Out Product Managers, Project Managers, and Product Owners
Product manager. Product owner. Project manager. Three roles that often exist in the same organization, sometimes in the same meeting, and frequently stepping on each other's toes. In this episode, Dave and Peter break down what actually separates these roles, why the confusion happens, and what it ...
AI Agent Governance in Production with Logan Kelly
Most organizations are somewhere between experimenting with AI agents and quietly hoping nothing breaks in production. Logan Kelly, CEO of Waxle AI, has spent a lot of time in that gap, and he thinks governance is the piece most teams are walking past too quickly. In this episode, Logan joins Peter ...